Dogmatism Quote by Paul Ricoeur

“The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.”

Paul Ricoeur

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“When ethnic cleansing feels enlightened, Sinai becomes septic, Bethlehem becomes Bedlam.”

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“She was not only unable to make the least allowance for a divergence from this way, but utterly unable to conceive that another existed for those who believed in a God, or acknowledged human power at all. She was as much at a loss to conceive how any good could come out of that Nazareth of her abhorrence, as an…

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“There is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together into ‘coteries’ where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumor that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the…

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